Flathead County Sheriff

It sounded like water spurting from a hydrant or maybe a fire crackling, according to a caller on Bear Run Road. When a Flathead County Sheriff's Office deputy went to investigate, it turned out to be plastic sheeting on a construction job being blown around by a strong wind.

Active construction was under way at 2 a.m. Wednesday on U.S. 2 East, when a deputy suggested neighbors might like to get some sleep and if the hammering and nail-gun sounds continued, citations would follow.

On Aero Lane, someone tried to get into a girl's window.

In Martin City, people reportedly surrounded a house at 4 a.m., opening windows and harassing the occupants.

The Highway Patrol made the arrest after a report that someone in a green car decided to show a rifle to other drivers.

A door knob was torn off a home on U.S. 93 South.

A red Honda motorcycle was stolen from Columbia Falls Stage Road.

A gray 1995 Ford F150 disappeared from near the fiberboard plant.

CD players and an amp were taken from vehicles on Nicholson Drive.

Two oil-waste tanks were stolen from Tri State Trucking.

A trailer was reported stolen at U-Haul. A television and chair vanished from a rental property on Big Mountain.

Items are missing from a home on Gopher Lane.

About $200 worth of Halloween decorations were stolen from a home on Westview Drive.

On Kraft Avenue, someone drove into a 500-gallon propane tank, causing it to roll down a hill and land upside down.